The traditional way of thinking about the achievement gap has been "the gap between Hartford and West Hartford," said William Ginsberg, president of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and a member of the Connecticut Commission on Educational Achievement, convened by former Gov. M. Jodi Rell to recommend ways to close the gap. But actually, Ginsberg says, "this is the gap between how our low-income children are performing as opposed to our non-low-income children. This gap exists in every community in Connecticut."
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